K. Eric Drexler
- Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we’re not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there – you just can’t do it anymore.
- Robyn Davidson
- I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I’m learning how to deal with it. That’s why I’ve chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.
- Jonathan Davis
- Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
- Anita Desai
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- The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
- Eric S. Raymond
- The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.
- Dave Rowntree
- The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner
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Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.
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Erma Bombeck
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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he’s a Mac user, he’ll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
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Tom Clancy
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Because I do think – not just in building AOL – but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.
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Steve Case
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I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.
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Jack L. Chalker
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Second, we’re spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We’re spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.
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Jay Chiat
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
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Alvin Toffler
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Technology favors horrible people.
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Doug Coupland
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Technology is not neutral.
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Godfrey Reggio
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In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I’m thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.
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Dana Delany
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You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn’t a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we’re third.
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K. Eric Drexler
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Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little ‘off the beaten trail,’ but cool area.
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Todd English
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- And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.
- Jamie Zawinski
- A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
- Charles Babbage
- When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it – whether it be a factory or a government.
- Alexander Chase
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- You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn’t a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we’re third.
- K. Eric Drexler
- If you know you’re going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don’t get distracted by what’s going on and focus better.
- George Dzundza
- I have relationships with people I’m working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn’t make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
- Harrison Ford
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